. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. CULTIVATION AND AN ALTS IS OF PLANTS. shaded nooks; Festuca caeca, which is a fine ornamental grass for pots or vases, and con- trasts well with the Holcus lanatus, or Velvet-Grass, which is of a silvery appearance and not unlike the common ribbon-grass of our gardens, but of finer texture. These four Grasses which we have single
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. CULTIVATION AND AN ALTS IS OF PLANTS. shaded nooks; Festuca caeca, which is a fine ornamental grass for pots or vases, and con- trasts well with the Holcus lanatus, or Velvet-Grass, which is of a silvery appearance and not unlike the common ribbon-grass of our gardens, but of finer texture. These four Grasses which we have singled out form a neat little collection for indoor culture when grown together, even without any admixture with other plants. A generally acceptable soil for the growth of nearly all Grasses, is made up of equal parts of cow-manure, leaf- mold, loam and sand well mixed; and all Grasses like water, but not stagnant jei:ejlT as. ELL known to our Anglo-Saxon literature, because indigenous and widely spread in the countries where that literature had its rise, the Heaths have been but little cultivated in the United States, although it is now recognized that twenty-six of the genera are natives of this countiy. The order is scientifically called Ericaceae, from Erica, the Heath proper, the accepted type of the family. There are five or more subordei's, perhaps seventy genera, and about eleven hundred species, besides uncounted varieties. Erica carnea, fleshy Heath, so called on account of its flesh-colored bloom, and Erica Mediterranea, or Heath of the Mediterranean, whose bloom is of a somewhat darker flesh-color, are cultivated by our florists and others, and are much valued as exotics. They make desir- able window plants if plentifully supplied with moisture and protected from excessive heat, whether artificial or natural. The inore common indigenous sorts are the Kalmia, or Sheep Laurel; the Azalea arborescens (Tree-like Azalea), or False Honey- suckle; the Rhododendron,
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